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A Hebrew tetractys in a similar way has the letters of the Tetragrammaton (the four lettered name of God in Hebrew scripture) inscribed on the ten positions of the tetractys, from right to left. It has been argued that the Kabbalistic Tree of Life , with its ten spheres of emanation, is in some way connected to the tetractys, but its form is ...
The Tetragrammaton in the Ketef Hinnom silver scrolls with the Priestly Blessing from the Book of Numbers [10] (c. 600 BCE). Also abbreviated Jah, the most common name of God in the Hebrew Bible is the Tetragrammaton, יהוה, that is usually transcribed as YHWH.
Jehovah (/ dʒɪˈhoʊvə /) is a Latinization of the Hebrew יְהֹוָה Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible / Old Testament. [2][3][4] The Tetragrammaton יהוה is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God's name in ...
Shem HaMephorash (Hebrew: שֵׁם הַמְּפֹרָשׁ Šēm hamMəfōrāš, also Shem ha-Mephorash), meaning "the explicit name," was originally a Tannaitic term for the Tetragrammaton. [1] In Kabbalah, it may refer to a name of God composed of either 4, 12, 22, 42, or 72 letters (or triads of letters), the latter version being the most common.
Jah or Yah (Hebrew: יָהּ, Yāh) is a short form of the tetragrammaton יהוה (YHWH), the personal name of God: Yahweh, which the ancient Israelites used. The conventional Christian English pronunciation of Jah is / ˈdʒɑː /, even though the letter J here transliterates the palatal approximant (Hebrew י Yodh). The spelling Yah is ...
Yahweh[a] was an ancient Levantine deity, the national god of the Israelite kingdoms of Israel and Judah, [4] and later the god of Judaism and its other descendant Abrahamic religions. Though no consensus exists regarding the deity's origins, [5] scholars generally contend that Yahweh is associated with Seir, Edom, Paran and Teman, [6] and ...
The Four Worlds (Hebrew: עולמות ʿOlāmot, singular: ʿOlām עולם), sometimes counted with a primordial world, Adam Kadmon, and called the Five Worlds, are the comprehensive categories of spiritual realms in Kabbalah in a descending chain of existence. The concept of "Worlds" denotes the emanation of creative lifeforce from the Ein ...
In fact, the word traditionally translated "rib" in English can also mean side, chamber, or beam. [15] Rib is a pun in Sumerian, as the word "ti" means both "rib" and "life". [16] God created Eve from ’aḥat miṣṣal‘otaiv (אַחַת מִצַּלְעֹתָיו ), traditionally translated as "one of his ribs". The term can mean curve ...